Your ideal yard would be??

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I'm bored and cold, fed up of the rain and whilst at the yard today, being thankful we're indoors, I was thinking if it were my own, what else I'd have on it. Top of wish list was an indoor school, hot wash/clipping bay and a covered horse walker. What would you add to your yard?
 
Ontop of the fab facilities I'm blessed to be able to use - In my total dreams I'd have an indoor school, lunge pen, gallops, a surfaced turnout area, and a hot wash bay / solarium. Not much then :P
 
The one I'm on - indoor barn/stables, walker, indooor washroom with hotwater and a solarium, fab outdoor school with (free) lights and a huge set of BSJA jumps with scary fillers/walls/water trays, individual turnout (although Kal has a little friend), and really lovely YO/family - Kali and I are in heaven :)
 
I love the yard my share horse is kept at. It's a private yard so just the two horses, big field that doesn't get muddy, amazing hacking, big stables, electricity and water. We used to (until a couple of weeks ago) have a spare stable we could use for clipping etc but it got filled with logs! Would be better if we still had it to use as clipping in their box or outside isn't great.

I'd also prefer if we had a school, with an actual surface we could use even when it rained too much or not enough or froze etc unlike our grass school! I wouldn't even ask for it to be indoor!

Ideally the stables would be brick built not wooden but the same size and the same full rubber matting. Also with a haybar!

An insulated tack room would be nice too, everything gets a little damp in our current one. Not great for the leather.

That's if I'm being realistic. If I'm not I'd like a big brick built courtyard with an archway leading out to the international size indoor school. Acres and acres of land with a summer jumping paddock and cross country jumps around the property. Big stables like we've got now with full rubber matting and hay bar. Also a huge outdoor school and covered round pen. Preferably still with the great hacking we've got now!

Either that or persuade the lady who owns the land our current yard is on that she wants us to convert her unused farm buildings into a variety of barns/schools etc!
 
I would like a barn with a corral/yard and a track system around an old fashioned meadow, a couple of indoor stables for isolation and a wash box and a school with a decent surface and jumps and miles of varied off road hacking.... not much really then.
 
Bourne Hill stables would be the dream, but with far wider walk ways and bigger stables! The rubber paving stones they use at racecourses too, so the noise was minimal. A heated tack room, with traditional wooden saddle racks and each horse with a wooden trunk for all their bits and bobs. A separate rug room with drying facilities. A full wall of mirrors in the indoor arena. Oh, and a gallop track!

The things dreams are made of haha, maybe one day...

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I have a long list of things I want on a yard :p
Indoor school
Heated wash bay
Rug drier
Private hacking (I can dream....)
Mirrors in the school
Heated tack room with a storage box
A 20x60 outdoor school as well
Nice large rubber matted stables
 
I like the area where I am now but I would like more, better draining land and an allweather barefoot track system with a big concrete area for a hay feeder. No school, but a good draining, flat riding paddock would be nice and maybe a gallops up the hill. I'd like better off road hacking (no farm rubbish on bridleways and fewer gates/easier to open gates).
 
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... house. In the pouring rain I would love my school to be covered and I'd like an all weather turnout which we might get round to eventually. I would also like bespoke built wooden cupboards and shelves in my tackroom and have it fully heated with a nice easy clean floor. I hate that since I moved in it's not exactly how I want it but we need to finish the house before I spend any more money on the yard. Anyway I can't complain, I felt so privileged last night when it was dark, wet and windy to be mucking out my own stables around my horses whilst listening to Xmassy songs. I couldn't help but smile.
 
Electric for lights, clipping, kettle etc
Toilet!!
Better draining land
More storage so I can stock up on hay/bedding
A muck heap
Don't think I'm to unrealistic :)
 
Love mine - its got all I need! And the fact that I live right beside it ;)

However if playing ideal yards would have to have:
Massive Indoor and outdoor arenas with freeze proof surface, with wooden showjumps.
16x16 stables for every horse with rubber mats and full beds, with a small outdoor "pen" attached to each stable
More off road hacking
Solarium, wash bay (indoors) and sea water spa and water walker.
gallops, water jump to play in, etc.
all weather turnout areas as well as old land to graze on...

A girl can dream :p
 
My yard....

What I like the most is the grazing - I have 7 acres for 3 horses. The land is well draining and split into flattish paddocks which I use in the summer, and has a very useful 3 acre hill field which we use to turnout in winter. We only ever get mud in the gateways, despite what the weather can throw at us, and only ever takes a couple of days to dry up.

I also have 6 internal stables and an all weather surface, but we rarely use this as have off road hacking straight off the yard!

Being in the Shropshire hills even poo picking is a pleasure as the views are so stunning.

6 yrs on, I still pinch myself that we own this and really is horse heaven.
 
24/7 turnout even in winter on well draining ground
Stables for when you need them
Indoor school 20x60
Outdoor giant school with full set of show jumps
Gallops
Horse walker
Indoor wash area
Lunge pen
Some little surfaced turnout area

I can dream!
 
Hmm, tough one! My ideal yard would include:

- Enough well draining land with shelter for 24/7 turn out
- Stables for emergencies
- Off road hacking
- Corral or round pen
- Indoor sand school
- Fixed obstacles for Parelli work like pedestal, tyres, barrels etc

I don't think I'm asking *too* much ...?! X
 
My yard is pretty much ideal so much of what I will list I have already,

All year round turn out in small groups (4 max) fields not over-stocked or over grazed, natural shade, well draining, high elevation, slightly hilly no hazards, allowed to put up electric fencing to restrict or rest if needed- all of which I have!

In my fantasy yard there would never be any ragwort and fairies would descend from the trees each night to do my poo picking and trough cleaning for me and the trough would never freeze and gateways would never be muddy enough to suck your welly off!

Miles of off road hacking in lovely countryside-again I am blessed to have this. I think though that it might be nice to have a path round the farm for short, sedate strolls when time and nerve is short

I don't really school but on behalf of daughter and fellow liveries I would like to have an indoor school, a really big one, also an outdoor school with that nice rubbery surface. I don't think I would be fussed about a horse walker, I'm a bit of a Luddite, I don't like them.

I don't jump but we have some xc jumps on the farm, again, for everyone else I would like to see a few more and maybe a proper course for everyone- with small "have a go" options too!

Free trailer/lorry parking- have that!
Unlimited straw and hay or haylage available- Yep, have that in the winter, maybe all year round would be good!

I think having a few washing machines in the tack rooms would be nice, and maybe a wash stall and drying room for rugs would be amazing!
 
Big well-drained fields with safe fencing. Nice dry stables and somewhere dry to store hay, feed and bedding. Somewhere dry for the farrier to work. Tack room that doesn't get left unlocked. Lots of nice hacking and a school that doesn't flood. A friendly farmer who makes good hay and straw. And I would like it to be near my house.
 
God where do I start ... my yard is effectively two fields full of horses with a small outdoor school. The 'yard' is the small paddock in between the two fields and it frequently floods and becomes and mudbath. Impossible to tie the horses up outside the field so have to feed in there, get surrounded by horses who then start fighting ... :( the school is constantly flooded, it's on a hill and isn't properly drained so all the water collects onto one side. It was about 2ft deep today! All the stables got knocked down in October so all the horses have to live out through the winter while they build new ones which have been put on hold due to the wet weather. We have no tack room so the 15 loaners all share a tiny container in the field which is already filled with old saddles belonging to the owner. It has no light so you have to take a torch at night and the little ponies have worked out how to undo the lock and eat all my pony nuts while I'm not there. Everything is muddy, everything is wet, massive puddles everywhere and it's almost impossible to get horses through the field gate because it's so churned up. So that's my rant for the day!

Ideal yard would have:
Well-drained school with a cover over the top - not necessarily indoor, just with a roof
Small indoor yard with adequate tying-up space and a few stables for the hard-to-do horses during the winter so they don't lose condition
Better drainage in the fields
A small tack room with lighting

Is that really too much to ask?!
 
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